Top 100 Mindful Quotes

#1. Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

Mary DeTurris Poust

#3. I want to remember to notice the wonders of each day, in each moment, no matter where I am under any circumstance.

Charlotte Eriksson

#4. As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would approve. I know he would want me to be happy.

Lisa J. Shultz

#5. Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#6. Acceptance in the mindful context means that even when the unthinkable happens, we honor our self and our experience with dignity and kindness. Rather than turn our back on our own suffering, we treat ourselves as we would a beloved friend.

Heather Stang

#7. The figures of our speaking are like pictures of names. Vague, weak names, but names nonetheless. Be mindful of them.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial.

Milarepa

#9. A mindful parent is one who is committed to practicing being present and awake, and to listening deeply to her child, moment by moment. Mindfulness depends upon awareness.

Shauna L. Shapiro

#10. When we bring our mind into our body, the body becomes mindful, and the mind becomes embodied

Donna Farhi

#11. The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full of energy, utterly self-generated.

Sang H. Kim

#12. Mindful eating is a way to become reacquainted with the guidance of our internal nutritionist.

Jan Chozen Bays

#13. Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

Nikki Rowe

#14. I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

Mahershala Ali

#15. I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.

King Hussein I

#16. Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front of us, we set aside our mental and emotional baggage. To be mindful we have to re-train our mind.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#17. A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived

Rumi

#18. In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

Daniel Clowes

#19. I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Deirdre O'Kane

#20. It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding.

Kat Lahr

#21. We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.

Les Greenberg

#22. At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to.

Craig Ferguson

#23. However, in this technique, because your eyes are open and because the gaze in not a tight gaze and because the whole emphasis of the practice is one of openess, even though you're mindful of the out-breath, you're not shutting out all other things that are going on.

Pema Chodron

#24. If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family.

Donna K. Childree

#25. 69The righteous are not in any way held accountable for the wrongdoers; their only duty is to remind them, so that they may be mindful of God.

Anonymous

#26. Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

Nhat Hanh

#27. I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.

Hattie Morahan

#28. Be kind today ... to yourself, remember to be a good friend to yourself, accept that you're doing your best, love your perfect imperfections, be mindful of what you need and give it to yourself, and surround yourself with people who honor, love and cherish you for who you are.

Ian Lawton

#29. Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

Gautama Buddha

#30. What we are doing in this moment is what matters the most. Be mindful.

Debasish Mridha

#31. We do food every single day! Conscious Eating is a big step toward Conscious Living. Quality and Quantity of Food is directly related to our Health and state of mind. We can use food to help us recover from Stress and Disease. Not taking food seriously will eventually lead to Stress or/and Disease.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#32. Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?"
The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

Hermann Hesse

#33. We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.

John Warner

#34. Rumination tends to be eased if we learn to be mindful; if we are able to be aware of, and understand how our own thoughts work.

Peter Kinderman

#35. How we prepare our food, how we consume our food really makes a difference in how our food satisfies us and shapes the role we give food in our lives. Is it something we stuff in to satisfy an urge or something we savor to feed us physically and sustain us spiritually?

Mary DeTurris Poust

#36. By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.

Eknath Easwaran

#37. To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)

Donald Rothberg

#38. Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#39. Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.

Amit Ray

#40. What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it.

Richie Norton

#41. The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.

Richie Norton

#42. Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways.

Richie Norton

#43. Few things come to shake us up and few things pass to teach us how to let go then many things come and remind us what it's all about. It's life and the only person who will control how you feel about all the guts and glory in its path is you.

Nikki Rowe

#44. We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.

Steve Earle

#45. And if we had learned anything from this story it was to be cautious of paper
to be mindful of its fragile construction and sharp edges, but mostly to be cautious of what is written on it.

Salvador Plascencia

#46. If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

Virgil

#47. To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God's passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#48. Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

Jack Kornfield

#49. Politics is a mirror with an untamed tongue; they that wish to walk in front of it must be mindful this!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#50. As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.

Kato Kiyomasa

#51. Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun and the moon.

Amit Ray

#52. Being mindful means being aware of everything and certain of nothing".

Wendy T. Behary

#53. Every day you're not doing that thing you want to do (your dream), you're spending mental currency, your dream currency (time) on the wrong thing.

Richie Norton

#54. There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#55. Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.

Richie Norton

#56. To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.

Rama Swami

#57. The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.

Sharon Salzberg

#58. In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

Brad Henry

#59. Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your burdens and the intensit going to use in your life to trigger an experience of personal revival.

Anne Graham Lotz

#60. The Lord is mindful of his own." "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day ... .

Agatha Christie

#61. And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

Pico Iyer

#62. Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.

Ken Cohen

#63. Be mindful and love yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#64. Be mindful and live every day of your great life.

Debasish Mridha

#65. Thought is creative. Be mindful of where your attention is, because the universe doesn't know the difference. It only knows where your focus is. Life will surely manifest where you put that attention.

Christina Applegate

#66. If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.

John Fire Lame Deer

#67. It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.

Barack Obama

#68. How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.

Philip Roth

#69. We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

Dave Reichert

#70. The Great Wall of Facebook:

Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.

Build your wall carefully by answering this question:

What are you building your wall around?

Richie Norton

#71. Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

John Abizaid

#72. Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

Gautama Buddha

#73. If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.

Richie Norton

#74. Climbing is definitely very much strength-to-weight ratio. At the same time, I've never dieted or restricted calories. You're just sort of mindful about not getting plump.

Alex Honnold

#75. Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.

Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.

Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.

Richie Norton

#76. Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.

George Lucas

#77. Follow your passion and learn how to make money at it. Or don't follow your passion and learn to make money at that. They are the same. It's a choice.

Richie Norton

#78. For He knows how we are formed;
He is mindful that we are dust.

Anonymous

#79. You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

Katherine Ellison

#80. I don't know if it's because my father's from Argentina, that I'm the son of an immigrant, I don't know if its because I'm Jewish, but I have always been mindful that the best insights occur when you have some kind of an outsider perspective.

Mark Leibovich

#81. I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.

Nikki Rowe

#82. When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

Shaun Tan

#83. You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.

Richie Norton

#84. He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.

Khalil Gibran

#85. I guess it's human nature to question yourself, to question why all the pain has had to happen? sometimes there isn't any answers it just is what it is and how we make ourselves feel and see through that, is what will determine how we move forward.

Nikki Rowe

#86. We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#87. There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

Frank B. Kellogg

#88. Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.

Frederick Lenz

#89. Mindful that it's running out, I am determined to have the time of my life.

Sheila Hancock

#90. When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#91. Be mindful even if your mind is full

James De La Vega

#92. Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. It's not about sitting back and waiting for things to happen. It's a mindful trust and complete collaboration with what is present here and now.

Deepak Chopra

#93. Be mindful of your thoughts and words for they are the pen writing that which will manifest.

Sanjo Jendayi

#94. Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#95. The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#96. Upon what has gone before, and that one must be mindful of that at every moment, with every choice made and about to be made.

Steven Erikson

#97. Who taught you to go around falling on rats ans squishing on hats? Terrible, terrible. Must always be mindful of your manners.

Lauren Oliver

#98. To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.

Elizabeth Thornton

#99. At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.

Richie Norton

#100. To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.

Allan Lokos

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